“I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.”

“You don't need millions of dollars or millions of people if you're doing what you love.”

“A statement of truth, and that is: Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.”

“Almost EasterShaking bone mealfrom my bare handsinto the rose bedwhere only one bush grows,I feel as if I’m scatteringmy father’s ashesall over again.This month marksthe seventh yearmy father has lainin my garden,his ashes in my handsstill as palpableas bone meal or thorns.Easter Sunday,I will hide an eggbehind his ear.Jesus will call down to himto get up and play.He won’t.But the rose bushthat is turning green,this rose will sink its rootsa little deeper in the earthand in a few monthsdrop its petalslike so many red tears.— Felicia Mitchell”

“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.”

“Oh! lovely voices of the skyWhich hymned the Saviour's birth,Are ye not singing still on high,Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?”

“There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart”